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I wouldn't be surprised if we get a mid October notice from Sony of a PS5 price increase notice prior to the GT6 release. You know Sony is discussing it and weighing the pros and cons ... they would be fools not to thinking about it.

They will be monitoring the pre-orders and if folks are getting the $100 full-game version of GT6 in overwhelming numbers, I think they will.

This gives them extra time to finish making the game while the beta gets released digitally.

Art from 500 years ago look phenomenal in screen shots ... show us the gameplay. Is it still the same wonky GTA / Red Dead standard?

As for Mario Kart World being $80 ... you can spend $50 for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which is a superior game.

I just confirmed I will wait for this game to go on sale. I'm not spending $80 on a video game.

What is the average race length (time) / laps? Does it vary?

You had me at Star Wars and WipEout.

They give out awards for game settings?

I'm not paying $900+ for a video game system. I don't care who makes it.

They could have gone the Disney route with with Rouge One and Solo and called is "A God of War Story". I think that would have reduced a lot of controversy.

I'm going to wait at least a year past the release date for this game at the very minimum before considering buying it. Sorry, but the industry has trained me to this game buying behavior.

You can pay full price for a game that will either need updates or be abandoned by the publisher ... or wait a year to see if they support it and if they do, get it 50% off.

I'm waiting for Nintendo to issue a cease and desist since they created the Game Cube in 2001.

Make a new single player WipEout game. And don't replace the anti-gravity ships with go-karts and call it a WipEout game.

And good spin for Sony's true customer ... the investor.

This is next-level Connect 4 super strategy.

So to play coach co-op on a PS5 it will be $21.98 / month

Petty revenge by Sony over Gears being dropped? Or Microsoft being jerks? I only know two things:

Microsoft Account = $0.00
Sony PSN "Essentials" Account = $10.99 / month

The price of this game will have a huge impact on all of us. Investors and banks are pressuring Rockstar to increase the price of the game so the rest of the industry can justify more expensive games. If Rockstar wants to be a rock star, they will list it at $69.99.

We shall know soon ...

The PS6 will be, in my opinion, at least $1000 based on the $900 price-tag of the PS5 Pro. Even hardcore gamers are going to balk at that price. And game developers are going to make the games for the PS5 instead of the PS6, because that is where the majority of "consumers" are. We already witnessed this with the transition from the PS4 to the PS5.

Sony doesn't have a Zelda game hidden up their sleeve to sell a system at that price ... heck, it is taking them 7 years to release a God of War game for the PS5.

I'm perfectly fine with the PS5.

I think Sony needs to look up the word "soon" in a dictionary

"You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"

Sweet! Looks like some nice quality of life improvements.

I think Sony could knock out a WipEout game in under 2 years with a small team ... it has been almost a decade since an HD collection of previous WipEout game was released. Sell it for $50 and watch the money roll in.

All you need for a good game is some mushrooms, turtles, a princess to save, and most importantly, fun mechanics.

Get rid of anyone that can't make a game in under 4 years. Get rid of real actors and motion caption. No microtransactions and a good single player game. And throw any CEO out of the window that wants to put ads in $80 games.

It's not brain science, it's rocket surgery!

I didn't see much of any hype for Saros from Sony. The first I became aware of it is when it popped up on PSN store for pre-order about a month prior to release. Compared to GoW which may be over a year or more away and is getting tons of hype. Or Wolvorine. I would argue that Saros needed even more promotion since it wasn't coming from an established franchise.

Strange for Sony not to promote an exclusive single player game, especially since there are only of handful of exclusive games that have been released on PS5.

Why doesn't Sony put out press releases bragging about the Ghost of Yotei sales numbers? It could boost interest. Brag about your company's triumph. Show us the numbers.

This site did a post on Pearl Abyss reporting that Crimson Desert has 6 million sales since March of this year. I think Pearl Abyss has put out three "brags" in since the game released 3 months ago. I think it still sells at full price as well.

Todd Howard will save us all! Rejoice!

8 years since Elder Scrolls 6 was announced. 8 years. And then we get hit with "don't expect anything soon". I'm not expecting anything soon. My kid that was born 8 years ago has better odds of getting her driver's license before this game is released.

If you can't make a good, high-quality game in less than 4 years, you need to get out of the game making business.

Look at Ubisoft Winnipeg's website. They have not done anything notable in their existence. I feel bad for anyone that loses their job, but if a Hamburger stand has been around for 8 years and only sold a few hamburgers, the talented hamburger-makers employed there would have left long ago to work for someone who cares about selling good hamburgers.

This may be the first Switch 2 game I get this year.

Isn't the whole reason to get a PS5 Pro is for the A.I. up-scaling? The recent updates on PSSR were celebrated here.

This is good news for gamers that like to wait and save money. Most of these games will be 30%-50% off by December.

I'm I taking Crazy Pills, or did Sony not announce a similar flip flop a month ago on their exclusivity?

It makes sense for Xbox to do this. I've noticed a lot of the better games that I'm currently playing have a "Microsoft Studios" logo pop up when loading on the PS5 than have "Sony Studios" on the PS5.

I two-sentence statement for a SEI spokesperson thru Gamespot (who Gamespot didn't even identify) is not an official statement. I trust the A.I. Bot more than this response.

Sony, issue an official statement. You are falling further out of the Gamer's Circle of Trust with each move you make. My purchases are on hold until otherwise.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

Good to see PS5 owners getting the have that true Bethesda Experience! I blew the dust off my Series X to see if the update made significant changes ... 7 loading screens later, I figured my objective was to stop playing StarField and get Crimson Desert. Well done, Todd Howard!

The game is a success in the fact that they are making money. But they left money on the table just because of a few tweets … it should be ahead of the first game in sales by a good margin, not trailing, especially with all the glowing reviews. If I were a developer, I would make it a term of condition upon hiring that no social media is allowed if a single tweet can cost millions of potential dollars to be lost. You will see more AI actors and voices too as a result of this phenomenon.

PS4's sold as of 10/22/2020: 110.4M (source psu.com)
PS5's sold as of 10/22/2025: Over 87M (source: this site)

So about 21% smaller user base could be used. I don't know what the bump for making a sequel equates to. Halo 2 sold 54% more than Halo

This is rabbit hole you crawl down when trying to connect dots the way you want the dots connected.

EA did a press release (see EA.com press releases) totally bragging about selling over 7 Million copies in three days. Three days. Over 7 million.

If you like playing a game, review it without being unbiased and I will decide from there. I have to deduct several points from a review score when I see a review site using questionable assumptions to promote buying a game.

Overall Gaming Industry Revenue has been consistent for the last 5 years ... no big drop-off after we were let out of our basements from Covid restrictions.

2020: $57.7 B
2021: $61.2 B
2022: $57.4 B
2023: $59.5 B
2024: $59.3 B

(source: VisualCapitalist.com)

No official sales reports from Sony or Sucker Punch. But according to the game journalists, it must have sold a billion copies by now. Trust 'em.

I assume the player "feedback" is based on how many copies are sold. They probably have a formula and if the payoff isn't there, then they won't waste money making the DLC. If there is payback, then they will make the DLC.

I hope they cast Carrot Top for the role of Aloy!